Khemu

Khemu (56 BC-49 BC) was the son of Bayek, Medjay of Siwa. He was murdered by the Roman politician Flavius Metellus as a part of an Order of the Ancients conspiracy in 49 BC.

Biography
Khemu was born in Siwa, Ptolemaic Egypt in 56 BC, the son of the medjay Bayek and his wife Amunet; he was of Nubian and Greek descent, and his father saw him as proof that the native Egyptians and Greeks did not hate each other. His father raised him with the goal of grooming him as his successor as medjay, and Khemu was educated in astrology, the Kemetic religion, and the purpose of the Medjay as the restorer of justice to Egypt. He befriended the fellow youth Chenzira, and, in 49 BC, Khemu, Chenzira, and Bayek went to hunt ibex for the Oracle of Amun. Bayek dismissed Chenzira, telling him that his mother was expecting him back at the village, and he had father-and-son bonding time with Khemu; after Khemu proved to be too easy to scare, Bayek decided to have him jump from Halma Point into the water below, just as his father had made him do in order to have him conquer his fears.

Death
However, the bonding moment was interrupted by the arrival of soldiers, who had been taken to Bayek by Chenzira, who believed their promise that they only wanted to talk to Bayek. Their commander, Iraklis Karahalios, beat down Bayek after he attempted to resist, and the soldiers took both Bayek and Khemu to a vault underneath the village, where masked men threatened Khemu if Bayek did not help them open the vault; they mistakenly believed that Bayek knew how. When the masked men left to greet Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, Khemu stole a knife from a soldier, but he was unable to cut his father free, as the masked men returned. When Flavius Metellus threatened to gouge out Khemu's heart if Bayek did not cooperate, an angered Bayek used the stolen knife in an attempt to attack Metellus, but Metellus grabbed Bayek's hand and shoved the knife into Khemu's heart. Bayek felt everlasting guilt over his son's death, believing it to be his fault, and he embarked on a quest of revenge against the secretive Order of the Ancients, who had killed his son and risen to high positions of power at Ptolemy's court.